Fourth Street House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Fourth Street House is a women's sober living home in Columbia, Missouri, in Boone County, operated by Fresh Start Sober Living Programs and accredited by the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.

Women's Sober Living in the Downtown Grid

The numbered streets sit in Columbia's oldest residential blocks, walking distance from downtown, the courthouse, the public library and the bus transfer point. For a woman in her first months, that geography quietly removes a set of failure points: a missed appointment because the bus did not run, a missed shift because the walk was two miles.

What Accreditation Obliges a Recovery Residence to Do

An MCRSP-accredited house publishes a code of ethics, provides fees and rules in writing before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers to a complaint process outside its own walls. Missouri requires none of this, which is the whole point of the roster. A house that is on it has agreed to be checked.

Single Parents, Children and Recovery Housing

Fresh Start houses single parents in recovery, expecting mothers and families working toward reunification, and it runs the First Start Childcare Center. Recovery housing that can accommodate a child changes what a mother is able to accept, because the alternative to a bed she cannot bring her child to is usually no bed at all.

Boone County and the Services a Resident Needs

Columbia is the county seat and carries the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, the Children's Division offices, MU Health Care and Boone Health, three colleges and the region's largest employment base. COMO Connect links them. A woman managing a custody case, an outpatient schedule and a job can do all three inside one city.

Reaching This Columbia Women's Sober House

The address is not published and applications go to the operator. Ask about openings and the wait, the weekly fee, room configuration, whether children can live on site, and what the expectation is about work or school in the first month.